Supreme Court · 1997 INSC 726 · Decided 12 November 1997
The Communist Party of India (M) v. Bharat Kumar and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1997 INSC 726 · [1997] SUPP. 5 S.C.R. 131
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 7728/1997
- Decided
- 12 November 1997
- Bench
- J.S. VERMA, B.N. KIRPAL, V.N. KHARE (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 19, 21
Headnote
B Constitution of India, 1950: Articles 19 and 21. Bandh-Cal/ing and enforcing 'Bandh' by political parties-Held unconstitutional by Kera/a High Court-Appeal before Supreme Court- C Held High Court was right in its conclusion that there cannot be any right to call or enforce a 'Bandh' which of the people as _a whole cannot be subservient to the claim of Fundamental Right of an individual or only .a section of people-Distinction drawn by High Court between a 0 'Bandh' and a call for general strike or 'Hartal' is well made out-Held the impugned judgment does not call for any
Judgments are the courts' own published copies, provided for study; they are not certified copies. Source: Indian Supreme Court & High Court Judgments, Dattam Labs (CC-BY-4.0)